TEARS
Lacrimal glands creating
Basal, emotional, and reflex tears
They say are good for your eyes.
The hypostases of three
In a washtub of emotional water
Overflowing with sad memories.
The misery of life within,
when a memory of you evaporates like
Leaves migrating in the wind.
Your name on my lips, aching
to talk to you again in the
Quiet moods when I forgot the words.
ABANDONED
I see you everyday
Standing alone, a roadside sentinel
Quiet, lonely and unassuming
In a psychological time
Of lived and remembered
Experiences long ago
Hulking awkwardly and
Out of place
Ravaged by nature and neglect
The sun plunging down
Into empty windows as
Ghosts peer out
In the darkness
Pressed from the
Inside calling the spectators
Decaying in slow drips
On a cruel timeline marching
Onward to becoming forgotten.
ATARAXIA
Time to enter the Epicurean Garden
A buffer to the Zephyrs blowing of
Obscurantist voices impregnating
The innocents huddled in ignorance.
Tranquil pleasures-
Procreative purpose-
In an atomic swerve
Filling desolate emptiness
Looking for less what’s there
Then what was truly missing.
BLUE HORNS
Georgian avant-garde experimentation
Intricate words constructed
As the great purge continued in
A fire burning rain of hopelessness.
A coterie of youthful hands
Joined at the pens of doom.
Symbolist Revolutions ringing with
Attacks on the flag of Realism.
Sonorous prophet, verses evaporating.
In the Soviet frozen sins evoking
Death sentences, suicides,
Resurrected in a poetic afterlife.
One survived, one for us
Honour his name, in the literary cemetery.
Giorgi Leonidze entered into
His eternal time for rest.
{The Blue Horns was a group of Georgian Symbolist poets and prose-writers which dominated the Georgian literature in the 1920s. It was founded in 1915 and was suppressed under the Soviet rule early in the 1930s.
The only member of the Blue Horns movement who has survived the Great Purge was Giorgi Leonidze.}
Carl Scharwath has appeared globally with 175+ journals selecting his writing or art. Carl has published three poetry books and his latest book “Playground of Destiny.”
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